10 Years Later

Ten years ago when I was swinging my Yomega firestorm like I was king of the world and nothing could stop me, I did not imagine that ten years later I would once again dive back into the realm of Yo-Yos. These goshdarn things do make you feel like a child, and that Eiffel tower looks as lopsided as it did when it was first molded with my 12 year old hands.

Yomega Raider get, Yomega Maverick getting.

Oh by the way, SC2 should be in the mailbox tomorrow so I may disappear for some time, along with being at Trail Mix and all.

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Juxtaposition Eventually Supercedes Singularity Including Colourful Attributes

This is easily the longest thread title I’ve ever posted, but this is my friend’s latest musical creation and I’m sure you should check it out!

So check it out

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Them Feelings

I now know what it’s like to have a crush on a girl again, and it really frightens me to no end because some things are really never meant to be experienced more than once. Then I’d really break apart mentally.

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Updates Galore

I’ve been visiting my own blog usually with something to add, but lately I’ve been trying to hold reservation on easily criticizing how things are, are done, are made, (and etc). Since my last post though I have indeed moved my computer parts into the HAF932 case that sacked my wallet a good one. Pictures are to come, but most of you have seen the behemoth of a case in person any way, so you clearly got the best shot of it.

World of Warcraft
Yes, I did in fact begin to play World of Warcraft, and I did buy both the first and second expansions to accompany the game. No, I don’t think I’m at a level of any real addiction yet (in reference, I probably play this less than I would play Modern Warfare 2) and it’s fun when you are playing with friends you know (in real life, that is). I’m still not sure how anyone can play this game non-stop for days on, but I’ve been told that sort of activity doesn’t kick in until at least lvl 80, and I’ve only brought two toons up to lvl 31. Who knows?

Android 2.1
Yes, this is much better than running android 1.5. For starters, the camera apk is a little bit more user friendly now that I can actually zoom into take pictures, and I am in possession of some very basic functions which weren’t seen before. System runs a lot more smoother, and if only the contact pictures would show up properly when dialing, I would have no complaints about it.

Magic 2011
Good news and bad news for vampire decks. The good news is that they are completely playable (in my opinion, anyway) but the bad news is that the likes of Vampire Nocturnus is definitely not going to be seen once M10 is cycled out in Oct/Nov whenever that cycling. White weenie also loses Captain of The Watch, but I’m told that no one really plays them M10 soldiers anymore, so I guess that’s not as big as say, if suddenly they lost Honor of the Pure (that would hurt a lot).

PS3 + 640GB
Simple upgrade, and the consequence is that I have a crap load of extra space. It remains to see what I will do with said space, but I probably will never run out until games are 100GB a piece.

WordPress 3.0
What, it’s here.

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Temp Residence

Everything is more or less set for the time being…that is until the big brother HAF932 shows up to house the party!

Screenshot 080610

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More Asus Fanboyism

Asus MS226H
Since my last computer was a laptop of sorts, It has actually been about 6 years since I’ve extensively sat behind a monitor, and back then 17″ 1440×900 was the thing everyone had, and if they were loaded they might have been running dual screens on their $4000 machines.

I went and picked up, most likely to my biased preferences, a 21.5″ LCD monitor from Asus (MH226H featured in the picture) from Tiger Direct at Kennedy (which on a note, no longer offers cash discounts). Yes, the 1080p spec caught my attention. More importantly this line of slim ergonomic monitors is what really made me choose this over the Samsung and LG that I had also scouted out.
MS226H Side View
If you look carefully, you’ll notice that this monitor ditches the conventional T-stand that you see in most monitors and opts for a more ergonomic circle to both support and adjust the monitor’s position. Does it look ridiculous in the picture? I thought so. Does it feel steady in real life? Indeed it does!

Since my computer isn’t actually up and running, I took the opportunity to run my PS3 through it just to check if everything was in order. To put things into perspective, this thing feels like the smaller brother of my LCD TV at home (which measures at 46″). Unfortunately my PS3 was still set to 5.1 audio, which completely threw things off when the audio was being passed to 2.0 speakers, and thus I did not do anything extensively on the PS3 except return it to the TV.

Now all I need to do is to play some of my Steam games on it to see what it’s like.

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In My Haste

I bought the cheapest NIC I could find on ncix, knowing there was a high possibility I wouldn’t actually need it once my room went through some redecorating, as I have a live feed going into my room. Since it was backordered+express shipped, I’ve discovered two fancypants things about it:

1) XLink Xai
2) Software AP

XLink Xai I have heard of, but have never bothered using to any useful extent since I don’t have any hardware that truly utilizes it (except the PSP, but I play GoW on that). The latter comes at a surprise. Perhaps it has been longer than I’ve come to speculate, but since when do NICs have software APs built in?!

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New Computer Get

Phenom II X4 965 BBE
EAH5770 (single DVI)
Asus P4A89GTD-PRO/USB3
Corsair XMS3 Dominator 8-8-8-24 DDR3-1600
WD CB 1TB SATA3

It arrives when it arrives!

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Jace, Copper and Eclair

Now that my situation has been more or less resolved, I am now in high hopes that my record will be officially amended prior to assessment by the University of Toronto graduating unit, or else I may end up being delayed until the next convocation. On the other hand I most definitely do not have to take another course to fulfill my credit requirements.

Recently I’ve been looking at the new set for MTG and have noticed just how playable PW Control can be on competitive T2, but it is by far the most expensive deck one can play, with the new Jace coming in at a whopping $75 a pop. Is it worth building? Only if you’re strapped on cash like tomorrow is 2012 the movie. Looks like I’ll be falling back to mono-black vamps as a developing if I’m going to play at any constructed tournaments in the near future.

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Copper Ladder

In case you didn’t know, that would be the lowest ladder available in the SC2 beta. COPPER.

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